Software engineer with 10 years of experience in building scalable and resilient distributed systems, and leading and mentoring teams that build them. Involved in all steps of the software development lifecycle.
Gabriel Pinto
@gabrielpinto
Software engineer based in Porto, Portugal. With a focus on backend and infrastructure.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
- Improved load times of static sites hosted on Fleek by ~90%, including our own with only changes to Fleek's underlying infrastructure.
- Oversaw the launch of a Javascript, decentralized edge serverless function service, based on the Deno core library.
- Added support for server-side rendering (SSR) of Next.js apps on our serverless functions service.
- Migrated the notification infrastructure to Braze.
- Automated the shift verification flow to reduce the support team's workload by 10%.
- Managed team of 3 in the development and implementation of new features.
- Managed the team's roadmap and backlog, addressing technical and business needs, designing and implementing new features.
- Automated manual processes to free up ~10h a month per developer.
- Developed a game deployment application that had >2000 games published in production.
- Implemented a pipeline to deploy new game builds to production in a matter of seconds.
- Led design and implementation of a template based game creation engine, to create, customize and distribute games in just a few clicks, with instant preview of changes: https://playpass.games/
Engineering Manager
IptiQ
Aug 2021 - Dec 2021 (4 months)
- Managed a team of two people in a production environment supporting development of new insurance products while maintaining support for existing products.
- Involved in designing the career progression during the company's scaling up.
- Improved team delivery by implementing agile methodologies and processes.
Senior Software Engineer
IptiQ
Dec 2019 - Aug 2021 (1 year 8 months)
- Developed a white label platform for insurance products, expanding the platform to support six different insurance products in production.
- Stabilized the emailing and document services from ~3 incidents a day to ~3 a month.
- Considered one of the highest performers of the engineering team.
Software Engineer
Mindera
Dec 2015 - Nov 2019 (3 years 11 months)
- Led company wide initiatives to foster growth in teams (retros, code dojos, guild meetings)
- Improved warehouse operations of a client, resulting in a ~20% increase in productivity.
- Reduced the generation time of real time reports for a client’s warehouse activities by ~97%.
- Designed and maintained architecture that had only 3 production incidents in 4 years.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Universidade do Minho
Bachelors of Engineering, Software Engineering
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
AWS CLI
AWS IAM
Amazon EC2
Google Cloud Platform
Amazon S3
kops
GitHub
Kubernetes
Docker Compose
AWS Fargate
Amazon EKS
Cloudflare
Amazon CloudFront
BunnyCDN
Jenkins
GitHub Actions
PostgreSQL
Node.js
Spring Boot
Spring
Vert.x
Spring Framework
Redis
Terraform
RxJava
Java 8
Vue.js
JavaScript
Python
HTML5
Java
CSS 3
Kotlin
Go
Rust
Kafka
RabbitMQ
Amazon SQS
ExpressJS
Amazon SNS
Grafana
Prometheus
Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL
GraphQL
Elasticsearch
OpenSearch
AWS Lambda
Shell
Amazon RDS
TypeScript
Amazon SES
Git
Docker
Amazon VPC
PlanetScaleDB
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
SQL
Google Kubernetes Engine
Amazon ECR
Availability
Location
Authorized to work in
Salary expectations
Social media
Skills
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